Shore fishes of French Polynesia

Gilles Siu (1) , Philippe Bacchet (2) , Giacomo Bernardi (3) , Andrew Brooks (4) , Jeremy Carlot (1) , Romain Causse (5, 6) , Joachim Claudet (1) , Eric Clua (1) , Erwan Delrieu-Trottin (7) , Benoit Espiau (8, 7) , Mireille Harmelin-Vivien (9) , Philippe Keith (5) , David Lecchini (1, 7) , Rakamaly Madi Moussa (7, 1) , Valeriano Parravicini (1, 7, 10) , Serge Planes (7) , Cédric Ponsonnet , John Randall , Pierre Sasal (1, 7) , Marc Taquet (11) , Jeffrey Williams , René Galzin

1 CRIOBE - Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement
2 Inconnu
3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
4 MSI - Marine Science Institute [Santa Barbara]
5 BOREA - Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques
6 SFI - Société Française d'Ichtyologie
7 LabEX CORAIL - Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL
8 Laboratoire de Génomique Fonctionnelle des Trypanosomatidés
9 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
10 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
11 CRH - Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale

On the occasion of the 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (http://ipfc10.criobe.pf/) to be held in Tahiti in October 2017, it seemed timely to update Randall’s 1985 list of the fishes known from French Polynesia. Many studies focusing on fishes in this area have been published since 1985, but Randall’s list remains the authoritative source. Herein we present an expanded species list of 1,301 fishes now known to occur in French Polynesia and we review the expeditions and information sources responsible for the over 60% increase in the number of known species since the publication of Randall’s checklist in 1985. Our list of the fishes known from French Polynesia includes only those species with a reliably verifiable presence in these waters. In cases where there was any doubt about the identity of a species, or of the reliability of a reported sighting, the species was not included in our list.

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Gilles Siu, Philippe Bacchet, Giacomo Bernardi, Andrew Brooks, Jeremy Carlot, et al.. Shore fishes of French Polynesia. Cybium : Revue Internationale d’Ichtyologie, 2017, ⟨10.26028/CYBIUM/2017-413-003⟩. ⟨hal-04375749⟩